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How Bees Spend the Winter

Where do all of the bees go in the winter? Discover where their buzz goes and how they survive the cold winter months.
Autumn is here, and winter is just around the corner. In Iowa, that means cold weather and plenty of snow. People and animals all have different ways of keeping warm. Here are some ways bees prepare ...
Declining bee populations are concerning farmers and researchers alike, and now a program to help bees survive the winter is being put to the test. 6 News attended a massive release of bees on Friday ...
I keep mason bees. They sleep in cardboard tubes all winter long. I worry about my little bees until I see them chew out of their nesting tubes in the spring. I talked about how mason bees and all ...
You can also grow specific plants to keep bees attracted to (or repelled by) a specific part of your garden instead. Sugar syrup in your hummingbird feeder is irresistible to nectar-feeding bees. Of ...
Christian W. W. Pirk received funding from University of Pretoria and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Honey bees are useful not only to humans but to other “free riders” attracted to ...
An estimated 40,000 bees have created quite a buzz at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The bees – rescued from one home in Naperville and another in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood – are now nestled in the ...